prevent replicant relocation

System

This application has a replicant that always iterates three times and contains only readonly values used by some custom generation logic. The order of the replicant instances is important, so I'm trying to find a way to prevent the up and down buttons from functioning. Because the DCR structure is already set there is no way to make this three containers. Other than hiding the entire replicant is there any way to prevent users from moving the instances around?

Adam Stoller

Unless there's some [as-yet] unkown way to control the ability of allowing re-arranging the instances of a replicated item, the only thing I can think of off the top-of-my-head is to have a read-only / hidden element within each replicant instance that records the correct order - and thus regardless of what some user may do, you can always re-order the entries yourself (probably have some FormAPI code to notify the user that the change they're attempting to make may not actually get made or something like that - though I'm not sure whether an onChange event would occur...)

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
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